The Prominent Dimensions of Entrepreneurial Skillset for Future Civil Engineering Graduates and Salient Factor That Promotes its Development

Abstract

The notion that 'a host of entrepreneurial skills' is instrumental in achieving successful completion of a construction project is presenting the emerging need for future civil engineering graduates to be equipped with entrepreneurial skills. However, the collective individual skills that reflect 'a host of entrepreneurial skills' for future civil engineering graduates and the salient factor that promote its development is ambiguous given that entrepreneurship per se is a multidimensional concept. Therefore, a quantitative study has been conducted to discover the collective individual skills that reflect 'a host of entrepreneurial skills' for future civil engineering graduate and the factor that promote its development. Partial Least Square Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM) has been used as a method to analyse the data. The outcome of the study shows that 'a host of entrepreneurial skills' for future civil engineering graduates are reflected by 5 prominent and 1 non prominent dimensions of individual skills. Besides that the outcome of the study also identified constraint as the salient factor that promotes the development of the entrepreneurial skill set.